A show of heavy artillery in Toa Payoh

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Supposing you were wondering, what would it be like to be close up with a drone, during all these reports in the news about Gaza City? Or perhaps after all this shooting down of planes you say, well, i would really like to get up close with some anti-aircraft artillery... where would i go to? Why the local towncentre of course! While wandering around Toa Payoh yesterday, buying a new pair of specs and some contact lenes when we were greeted with the strangest sight. A series of surface to air missiles on display - at an exhibition put together by the RSAF. It totally blew me away. Metaphorically of course, unlike the people who are actually at the receiving end of these things who are actually blown up...all that hot metal gleaming darkly in the sun. I was told by a truly enthusiastic soldier, we have all this weaponry so that you can sleep safely at night. Of course i sleep safely at night now... actually i spent half the night thinking about all that heavy metal. How much it cost and what had we become and what is the kind of world my children are now living in. I fucking hate George Bush Jr.

Here is a drone. It can drop bombs.
This is what is used to spy on the residents of the Gaza strip,
and to carry out surgical air strikes. It has an operating distance of 100 km.

This is a surface to air missile which has a range of 10 km into the air.

I think it is kinda weird seeing Mos Burger in the background

This is LIKE the missile device that was used to blow up MH17
See the thing about war is that if you have weapons, you need to use them. Or you can't buy new ones. And now we are such a heavily armed planet that we are now using it on completely innocent people.



Isn't that a thing of craziness? And we train people to use them.
Sometimes you have to wonder what slaves we have become and to whom.

Mr Bean in the background

This is a vehicle that carries a surface to air missile and has two machine guns
as it provide ground troops air cover.

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